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soubrette: ► definition

Definition:

a cheeky female servant, as the character Dorine in Moliere's play Tartuffe:

ORGON: And how about Tartuffe?
DORINE: Tartuffe? He's well; He's mighty well; stout, fat, fair, rosy-lipped.

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Uses:

He recalled a musical comedy in which the comedian, reminded by the soubrette that they were engaged to be married, had said "I forgot to tell you about that, it's off,"

P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.55 (1971)

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A charming soubrette, great Marie Kendall, with dauby cheeks and lifted skirt smiled daubily from her poster upon William Humble,

James Joyce. Ulysses

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The other lady of the ensemble, a svelte twilight soubrette, objects to my having, so to speak, photographed her in her old housecoat.

J.D. Salinger. Franny and Zooey, p.48 (1955)